__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation. This API is quite popular
$ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
77
The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't
use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.
This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have instances where I want to use drm_malloc_ab() but with a custom
gfp mask. And with those, where I want a temporary allocation, I want to
try a high-order kmalloc() before using a vmalloc().
So refactor my usage into drm_malloc_gfp().
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1460113874-17366-6-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating
allocation size. While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there
is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'.
This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve
portability and readability for allocation size validation.
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that the drm core can do this, lets just use it, split the code out
so TTM doesn't have to drag all of drmP.h in.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Michal Hocko